Gabriel Vicéns

Gabriel Vicéns (1988) has quickly become a respected figure in the Puerto Rican jazz scene. He attended the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and graduated Summa Cum Laude as the first jazz guitarist. In 2012, he completed his first solo album, Point In Time, which featured jazz legend Eddie Gómez, who describes Vicéns as creative musician that displays a new vision on the guitar, and tenor saxophonist David Sánchez, and was critically acclaimed in multiple local and international magazines. He has recorded and played on stage with renowned musicians like Eddie Gómez, David Sánchez, Alex Sipiagin, Miguel Zenón, Paoli Mejías and Henry Cole.

Gabriel Vicéns (1988) has quickly become a respected figure in the Puerto Rican jazz scene. He attended the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and graduated Summa Cum Laude as the first jazz guitarist. In 2012, he completed his first solo album, Point In Time, which featured jazz legend Eddie Gómez, who describes Vicéns as creative musician that displays a new vision on the guitar, and tenor saxophonist David Sánchez, and was critically acclaimed in multiple local and international magazines. He has recorded and played on stage with renowned musicians like Eddie Gómez, David Sánchez, Alex Sipiagin, Miguel Zenón, Paoli Mejías and Henry Cole.

Vicéns has garnered much attention performing live at some of the most important jazz festivals in the country such as the Heineken Jazz Fest, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico Jazz Festival and the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico Jazz Festival. He is also known as one of the best sideman guitarists in the Puerto Rican jazz scene, often playing with top groups like SM Quinteto, Jonathan Suazo Quintet and Henry Cole & The Afrobeat Collective.

Most recently, he joined the faculty of the Music Department at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. In 2015, he recorded his second solo album, Days, produced with jazz trumpet player Alex Sipiagin and released under Inner Circle Music.

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CD/LP/Track Review

Guitarist-composer Gabriel Vicéns, a leading light of
Puerto Rico’s jazz scene, flaunts a modernist sensibility
on his impressive debut as a leader

- Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times Magazine

Gabriel Vicéns' Point In Time displays exceptional
maturity in composition and performace. As the Puerto
Rican guitarist thoughtfully develops each improvised
solo, it's easy to forget this is his debut release

- James Rozzi, Jazziz Magazine

Point In Time is a full-bodied debut record filled with
bright moments, enchanting sounds and thrilling journeys.
The Zeitgeist of modern jazz is exhibited through Vicens'
work

- Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

Puerto Rican guitarist Gabriel Vicéns shows signs of
being one of the new aces of mainstream guitar
Vicéns’ resourceful, impressive view is such that the
Collective We will want to experience anew